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Seeking to find out more about Pierce Inverarity’s investments, Oedipa goes to a stockholders’ meeting at the offices of Yoyodyne’s Galactronics Division in San Narciso. She gets in because she represents the Inverarity estate, but she finds herself surrounded by old men who briefly talk business and then spend half their meeting singing more than a dozen songs about their company. This is one such song: the stockholders sing about their “undying loyalty” to the corporate headquarters where they are currently seated.
Pynchon ridicules the Yoyodyne stockholders in order to point out that the supposedly rational central principle of American…